Analysis of Israeli Political Situation

I think Ben-Gvir's tenure in a key role in the government could

bring Israel to the brink of sanctions that would be very hard to recover

from.

You've finally decided to take the gloves off.

Yes.

And you went at 346 km/h—

at Ben-Gvir. I've been talking more with, uh, Americans,

American Jews, people who support us,

and the whole Ben-Gvir situation is inexplicable.

Now, I want to distinguish something, because on Friday Ben-Gvir wrote a whole manifesto

in which he

explained, among other things, that I'm Ashkenazi and he's Mizrahi.

You're a petty racist, come on.

Yeah. I have no problem paying a price for substance.

That is, if Israel thinks it now needs to conquer

Gaza

to defeat Hamas, I'm willing to bite the bullet and take a 30% drop in GDP

for that, because it's existential. Same for building in E1, because I think

that preventing a Palestinian state is a value thanks to which you and I

and our children will live here in 50 years.

But I'm not willing to pay a price for empty PR,

Certainly not when it's not PR for the state, it's PR for a politician.

For me, the incident with the noose… Listen, it's like the Golden Dawn party

in Greece, or the story with your hanging cake, or doing targeted strike days, all of

that. Now, I don't belittle Ben-Gvir's achievements, first

and foremost in the prisons,

but after all that, when I evaluate his tenure as National Security Minister,

how much

noise—

Dangerous.